This was a huge California BLM land grab. Much protest by local indian tribes and local residents to no avail. The desert was horribly disturbed and raped for this hundred million dollar boondoggle. The wind is seasonal there and even after a storm has moved through these ugly things are sitting still.

at least no eagles or other birds are being slaughtered....I get a kick out of the environmentalists who will kill a million American eagles to prevent an ounce of CO2 from beine emitted into the atmosphere....amazing

This past summer I drove from Fort Worth to Midland for a business trip. I remember seeing what seemed to be THOUSANDS of wind turbines from around Sweetwater all the way to Big Spring on both sides of Interstate 20 as far as the eye could see.

I estimated that maybe 1 - 2 percent of all those turbines were actually turning. All the rest stood motionless. Don’t know if it was just weak wind flows moving in very specific channels or if the unmoving ones were inoperable for some reason or another.

Yeah, unfortunately they built this thing on my prime shooting spot. Will be looking at closer to the border now. Which of course makes it more fun with potential illegals.
Hard to find good shooting spots on BLM land around here.

Even when they are turning they might not be producing. They could just be in low level turning without the generator clutch engaged. Who knows how much they really are producing - have to read the gages

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